Books by Férdia J Stone-Davis
by Katherine Butler, Samantha Bassler, John MacInnis, Jason Stoessel, Tim Shephard, Férdia J Stone-Davis, Erica Levenson, Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Jamie Apgar, Sigrid Harris, and Aurora Faye Martinez Myths and stories offer a window onto medieval and early modern musical culture. Far from merely ... more Myths and stories offer a window onto medieval and early modern musical culture. Far from merely offering material for musical settings, authoritative tales from classical mythology, ancient history and the Bible were treated as foundations for musical knowledge. Such myths were cited in support of arguments about the uses, effects, morality, and preferred styles of music in sources as diverse as theoretical treatises, defences or critiques of music, art, sermons, educational literature, and books of moral conduct. Newly written literary stories too were believed capable of moral instruction and influence, and were a medium through which ideas about music could be both explored and transmitted. How authors interpreted and weaved together these traditional stories, or created their own, reveals much about changing attitudes across the period.
Looking beyond the well-known figure of Orpheus, this collection explores the myriad stories that shaped not only musical thought, but also its styles, techniques, and practices. Moreover, music itself performed and created knowledge in ways parallels to myth, and worked in tandem with old and new tales to construct social, political, and philosophical views. This relationship was not static, however; as the Enlightenment dawned, the once authoritative gods became comic characters and myth became a medium for ridicule. This collection provides a foundation for exploring myth and story throughout medieval and early modern culture, and facilitating further study into the Enlightenment and beyond.
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Home: Creating and Inhabiting Place through Musical Activity, 2015
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Boydell and Brewer eBooks, Dec 31, 2019
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The tutor entitled The Genteel Companion was published in 1683: it was compiled by Humphrey Salte... more The tutor entitled The Genteel Companion was published in 1683: it was compiled by Humphrey Salter, an English composer, editor and music publisher, and is one of many Methods, or books of recorder instruction. 1 It is an interesting work which, through its teaching of graces, becomes more than a merely technical manual, for it offers tools to the beginner that promote a degree of musicianship. In order to appreciate this, it is necessary to examine the context in which the book was produced, for this highlights an important issue, one which frames the work. The Genteel Companion emerged within a period that saw the revitalisation of music practice in England. After a period of exile, Charles II returned to the throne in 1660 and, following Puritan rule, during which public music-making was strongly discouraged, music was once again restored to a central position in cultivated life. 2 It was the resurgence of music-making more generally, and interest in the recorder specifically, wh...
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Ethnomusicology Translations, 2016
In this appraisal of then-current German-speaking ethnomusicology, Martin Greve calls for much mo... more In this appraisal of then-current German-speaking ethnomusicology, Martin Greve calls for much more critical acknowledgment and consideration of recent key debates in cultural studies and cultural anthropology. The essay and its provocative title, certainly written in a constructive spirit, hit a trouble spot, fueling the fear of losing ethnomusicology’s disciplinary raison d’être. A short but telling discussion among German-speaking ethnomusicologists ensued.Originally published in German as “‘Writing against Europe’: Vom notwendigen Verschwinden der Musikethnologie,” Musikforschung 55 (2002): 239-250.
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Theology, 2007
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Contemporary Music Review, 2015
Electroacoustic composer Trevor Wishart discusses the notion of home as it relates to identity, s... more Electroacoustic composer Trevor Wishart discusses the notion of home as it relates to identity, society, the environment and sense of community. He relates this to his own musical trajectory, including performance and composition, and pays particular attention to the role of his own voice as a means of shaping and honing his own compositional approach, including the development of software programmes.
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Philosophy, 2015
This paper examines Roger Scruton's acousmatic account of music, situating it in relation to ... more This paper examines Roger Scruton's acousmatic account of music, situating it in relation to the anthropology that accompanies it. It suggests that in order to adequately maintain the anthropology Scruton desires (a cognitive rather than an ontological dualism), and to take full account of the parallel he draws between musical and inter-personal understanding (through gesture), the materiality of music needs to be more fully into his account of musical understanding.
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Contemporary Music Review, 2015
This article critiques Nelson Goodman's seminal account of worldmaking on the basis that it f... more This article critiques Nelson Goodman's seminal account of worldmaking on the basis that it focuses on the abstract at the expense of the concrete and therefore over-emphasises rightness and coherence in the creation of world versions. Suggesting that his account ought not to be abandoned altogether, Goodman's five worldmaking processes are used in conjunction with Judith Butler's account of gesture as event. The article suggests that worldmaking inevitably involves worldbreaking not simply in the sense of transforming already existing world versions but in terms of the co-existence of world versions within a single location. Pussy Riot's action ‘Mother of God, Chase Putin Away’ in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour forms the case in point, drawing out the dynamic between worldmaking and worldbreaking and showing how it is inevitably and powerfully bound up with performance and context.
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Books by Férdia J Stone-Davis
Looking beyond the well-known figure of Orpheus, this collection explores the myriad stories that shaped not only musical thought, but also its styles, techniques, and practices. Moreover, music itself performed and created knowledge in ways parallels to myth, and worked in tandem with old and new tales to construct social, political, and philosophical views. This relationship was not static, however; as the Enlightenment dawned, the once authoritative gods became comic characters and myth became a medium for ridicule. This collection provides a foundation for exploring myth and story throughout medieval and early modern culture, and facilitating further study into the Enlightenment and beyond.
Edited Books by Férdia J Stone-Davis
Edited Journals by Férdia J Stone-Davis
Papers by Férdia J Stone-Davis
Looking beyond the well-known figure of Orpheus, this collection explores the myriad stories that shaped not only musical thought, but also its styles, techniques, and practices. Moreover, music itself performed and created knowledge in ways parallels to myth, and worked in tandem with old and new tales to construct social, political, and philosophical views. This relationship was not static, however; as the Enlightenment dawned, the once authoritative gods became comic characters and myth became a medium for ridicule. This collection provides a foundation for exploring myth and story throughout medieval and early modern culture, and facilitating further study into the Enlightenment and beyond.